Re: [Audacity-quality] Labelled Audio menu

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

On 3 June 2013 22:24, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...> wrote:
> I asked this on -quality a while ago, and Al Dimond answered ...
>
>> On Monday, September 20, 2010 14:35:03 Bill Wharrie wrote:
>>> Why are Labelled Regions > Cut and Delete disabled when sync-lock
>>> is on?
>>
>> Because Labeled Regions > Cut cuts audio from the audio tracks,
>> leaving the label tracks alone. When we examined how these functions
>> work with Sync-Lock mode (maybe a year or so ago?) we decided that
>> their leaving the label tracks alone was a defining feature. This is
>> inconsistent with sync-lock mode, where edits in all tracks are to be
>> synchronized.

That seems a bit arbitrary given that these commands have a completely
different way of treating selections than any other commands, but
thanks for the information Bill.

I presume that these commands should be greyed out if there is no
wavetrack present?

Steve


>>
>> - Al
>
> On 03/06/2013, at 5:01 PM, Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why
>>
>> "Labelled Audio > Cut"
>> and
>> "Labelled Audio > Delete"
>>
>> are greyed out when Sync Lock is enabled, but the the other "Labelled
>> Audio" sub-menu options are not?
>>
>> Should they be greyed out or not?
>>
>> Steve
>>